Sublime

death was construed as either a “blessing” or an exceptional case, the dramatic instance on which someone else’s (never our own) story turned.

DEATH HAS Its Purposes One can see how it might have happened. The Enemy persuades Man to rebel against God: Man, by doing so, loses power to control that other rebellion which the Enemy now raises in Man’s organism (both psychical and physical) against Man’s spirit: just as that organism, in its turn, loses power to maintain itself against the reb

But Death—the enemy who is not to be bought off or deceived, and on whom no money, and no treachery has any effect—presented